The Telegraph
How Angela Rayner became the power behind the throne
It was the picture at PMQs that told a thousand words about two women’s changing fortunes. While Rachel Reeves wept on Wednesday, Angela Rayner sat beside her, stony faced and resolute. As gilt yields shuddered in the City, the political stock of the Deputy Prime Minister was rising, just as the Chancellor’s was falling. In fact, after Sir Keir Starmer’s climbdown over welfare reform, in the face of a bruising public battle between ministers and Labour backbenchers, Rayner emerges as the only fr